If the health of our planet is of interest to you, then the next two weeks are as important as any in history, as told by Connie Hedegaard. The incoming president of COP15, the United Nation’s conference on climate change, does not mince words about the crucial nature of this global gathering. In an article [...]
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I like business plan competitions. I participate in several as a judge, and I recommend them to entrepreneurs working on high-end startups that might be interesting to investors. You know who you are. You need a real shot at high growth, a credible management team, and commitment to an exit strategy. You can win real [...]
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Palo Alto Software Offering Business Plan Workshop to Lincoln County Business Owners – Oregon It’s not a secret that Oregon is a great state to start a business. If you are a business owner in Lincoln County you know the challenges of staying open and staying solvent. Do you have a plan to thrive in [...]
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Can you communicate the core of your business plan in just a couple of minutes? How about in a single 140-character tweet? Our new Bplans Business Pitch tool can help you develop and refine your core message. Add your pitch now and you can even get a FREE copy of our best-selling Business Plan Pro [...]
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I have to admit bias squared with this post, because I like Ramon Ray, the author, and he’s congratulating Business Plan Pro, which is my work, on its 15th anniversary. Still, Ramon makes this point very well: We all know that when applying for a loan and seeking venture capital funds you simply have to [...]
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Yes, I’m biased, but still, this is a good list of tips from Sabrina Parsons on the She Takes on the World blog. People are the most important asset in your business. People are also much harder to manage than products or services. As an entrepreneur, you may have heard this from other people: Hire [...]
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It’s rare that we toot our own horn but … Palo Alto Software was honored this month as one of Oregon’s 100 Best Companies to work for. Oregon Business Magazine runs the awards and sends out surveys for employees to fill out. Thank you to both Oregon Business for running this survey, and thank you [...]
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Palo Alto Software CEO, Sabrina Parsons will be one of the guests on Friday’s Business Insanity Talk Radio with host Barry Moltz tomorrow morning. Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. This is a business radio show where we talk about [...]
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At Palo Alto Software, we’re used to talking with entrepreneurs about their businesses. Most are enthusiastic about what they do, but you can hear it in their voices when they truly love it. Carol Graham, a relatively new user of Business Plan Pro, is one of those people. As founder of Bulldog Communications, LLC, in [...]
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Palo Alto Software is sponsoring the Governor’s Business Plan Contest in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest – the nation’s first statewide, tech-based business plan competition – is accepting entries online for the 2009 competition. Entries will be accepted now through 5 p.m. Jan. 31, 2009. The contest’s Grand Prize is worth $50,000 in [...]
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